Polymorphism is based on types, Sean. I won't return your insult and suggest that you don't know this. I'm suggesting that if CF knows enough about types to implement polymorphic behavior that it might know enough to allow for overloading.
To respond to your direct question, yes, I can actually program in Smalltalk and Java. Rather than turn this into an adolescent challenge, though, I would think that you would be interested in the issues I've raised about CFCs and the implementation of OO. My experience is that when people resort to ad hominem arguments, it's because they've run out of real ones. Hal Helms Preorder "Discovering ColdFusion Components (CFCs)" at www.techspedition.com -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 5:08 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFC theory On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 01:56 , Hal Helms wrote: > But CF does type checking for return types and argument types. It > allows polymorphism by checking the type, so why can't we expect it to > know enough to sort out the type of the argument passed to it? What has polymorphism got to do with return type and argument type checking??? Hal, I don't mean to be rude, but can you actually program in Java and / or C++? Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
